Guard Dog Security & Site Lock 6.6
Does Guard Dog Security & Site Lock work with WordPress 6.9.4 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on .
Summary
Errors
| 1 | PHP warnings |
| 1 | JavaScript exceptions |
| All test pages loaded successfully | |
| No resource errors |
Performance
Memory usage: 411.44 KiB
The average PHP memory usage increased by this amount after activating by the plugin.
Page speed impact:
0.038 seconds
The average page load time increased by this amount after activating the plugin.
Environment
| WordPress version | 6.9.4 |
|---|---|
| PHP version | 8.1.12 |
| MySQL version | 10.6.10 |
| PHP memory limit | 512M |
Plugin Info
| Last updated | |
|---|---|
| Active installs | 200+ |
| WordPress.org page | https://wordpress.org/plugins/folder-auditor/ |
| Badges |
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Pages 10
Guard Dog Security ‹ Test site — WordPress
| URL | /wp-admin/admin.php?page=guard-dog-security |
|---|---|
| Requested URL | /wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=folder-auditor%2Ffolder-auditor.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=9816080fcc |
| Aspect | after-activation |
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Load time | 0.674 s |
| Memory usage | 4.43 MiB |
| JS errors | None |
| Resource errors | None |
Guard Dog
| URL | /wp-admin/admin.php?page=guard-dog-security |
|---|---|
| Aspect | menu-item |
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Load time | 0.400 s |
| Memory usage | 4.18 MiB |
| JS errors | None |
| Resource errors | None |
Guard Dog → .htaccess
| URL | /wp-admin/admin.php?page=guard-dog-security&tab=htaccess |
|---|---|
| Aspect | menu-item-tab |
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Load time | 0.911 s |
| Memory usage | 4.28 MiB |
| JS errors | None |
| Resource errors | None |
Guard Dog → Site Lock
| URL | /wp-admin/admin.php?page=guard-dog-security&tab=security |
|---|---|
| Aspect | menu-item |
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Load time | 0.528 s |
| Memory usage | 4.13 MiB |
| JS errors | None |
| Resource errors | None |
Guard Dog → Site Lock → Dashboard
| URL | /wp-admin/admin.php?page=guard-dog-security&tab=dashboard |
|---|---|
| Aspect | menu-item-tab |
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Load time | 0.413 s |
| Memory usage | 4.18 MiB |
| JS errors | None |
| Resource errors | None |
Guard Dog → Auditor
| URL | /wp-admin/admin.php?page=guard-dog-security&tab=audit |
|---|---|
| Aspect | menu-item |
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Load time | 0.359 s |
| Memory usage | 4.09 MiB |
| JS errors | None |
| Resource errors | None |
Guard Dog → Scanner
| URL | /wp-admin/admin.php?page=guard-dog-security&tab=scanner |
|---|---|
| Aspect | menu-item |
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Load time | 0.338 s |
| Memory usage | 4.49 MiB |
| JS errors | None |
| Resource errors | None |
Guard Dog → Tools
| URL | /wp-admin/admin.php?page=guard-dog-security&tab=tools |
|---|---|
| Aspect | menu-item |
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Load time | 0.312 s |
| Memory usage | 4.09 MiB |
| JS errors | None |
| Resource errors | None |
Guard Dog → Settings
| URL | /wp-admin/admin.php?page=guard-dog-security&tab=settings |
|---|---|
| Aspect | menu-item |
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Load time | 0.329 s |
| Memory usage | 4.2 MiB |
| JS errors | |
| Resource errors | None |
Test site – Just another WordPress site
| URL | / |
|---|---|
| Aspect | front-page |
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Load time | 0.247 s |
| Memory usage | 4.44 MiB |
| JS errors | None |
| Resource errors | None |
Benchmark
| URL | Load time | Memory usage | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inactive | Active | Change | Inactive | Active | Change | |
| /wp-admin/index.php | 0.429 s | 0.531 s | +0.102 s | 3.78 MiB | 4.19 MiB | + 426.17 KiB |
| /wp-admin/edit.php | 0.365 s | 0.332 s | -0.033 s | 3.78 MiB | 4.24 MiB | + 471.69 KiB |
| /wp-admin/post-new.php | 0.891 s | 1.135 s | +0.244 s | 6.31 MiB | 6.76 MiB | + 468.41 KiB |
| /wp-admin/upload.php | 0.479 s | 0.601 s | +0.122 s | 3.74 MiB | 4.12 MiB | + 392.95 KiB |
| /wp-admin/options-writing.php | 0.323 s | 0.325 s | +0.002 s | 3.71 MiB | 4.09 MiB | + 382.17 KiB |
| /wp-admin/media-new.php | 0.499 s | 0.372 s | -0.127 s | 3.7 MiB | 4.08 MiB | + 390.37 KiB |
| /wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category | 0.326 s | 0.308 s | -0.018 s | 3.72 MiB | 4.11 MiB | + 400.82 KiB |
| /wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page | 0.707 s | 0.750 s | +0.043 s | 6.3 MiB | 6.75 MiB | + 465.84 KiB |
| /wp-admin/options-discussion.php | 0.329 s | 0.411 s | +0.082 s | 3.71 MiB | 4.09 MiB | + 386.97 KiB |
| /wp-admin/edit-comments.php | 0.335 s | 0.392 s | +0.057 s | 3.74 MiB | 4.13 MiB | + 400.69 KiB |
| / | 0.293 s | 0.236 s | -0.057 s | 4.11 MiB | 4.44 MiB | + 339.72 KiB |
| Average | 0.452 s | 0.490 s | +0.038 s | 4.24 MiB | 4.64 MiB | + 411.44 KiB |
Code Statistics
Note: Third-party libraries and minified JS/CSS files are excluded from these statistics where possible, so the numbers you see here may be lower than those reported by other tools.
| Language | % | Lines of code | Comment lines | Files | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PHP | 85.8% | 17,840 | 2,440 | 60 | |
| CSS | 10.9% | 2,260 | 109 | 1 | |
| JavaScript | 3.4% | 700 | 77 | 2 | |
| HTML | 0.0% | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Total | 20,801 | 2,626 | 64 | ||
PHP Code Analysis | More results »
| Lines of code | 14,593 |
|---|---|
| Total complexity | 2,563 |
| Median class complexity | 13.0 |
| Median method complexity | 1.0 |
| Most complex class | WPFA_Security_Headers |
| Most complex function | run_blacklist_checker() |
| Classes | 5 |
|---|---|
| Methods | 35 |
| Functions | 47 |
Additions
Things that the plugin adds to the site. This section is not intended to be comprehensive. The test tool only looks for a few specific types of added content.
Options wp_options 7
- wpfa_admin_bar_lock_status_display
- wpfa_block_new_admins
- wpfa_block_user_enumeration
- wpfa_cron_token
- wpfa_disable_xmlrpc
- wpfa_limit_login_attempts
- wpfa_never_lock_content
PHP Error Log 1 lines
[22-Mar-2026 14:56:04 UTC] PHP Warning: Undefined variable $wpfa_cron_disabled in /wp-content/plugins/folder-auditor/includes/views/view-settings.php on line 71